Blight Quotes

53 quotes by 51 authors

Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own… — Charles Hamilton Houston
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider… — Nelson Mandela
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next… — Joni Mitchell
And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or… — Guillermo del Toro
Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not… — Hartley Coleridge
They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole,… — David Duke
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment… — Michael Gove
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! — Vivian Campbell
Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome… — Robert Graves
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight… — Rachel Carson
Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape. — John Muir
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency… — George Eliot
Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. — Theresa May
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may… — George Muller
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it… — Evelyn Waugh
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise,… — Charles Dickens
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The… — Emily Dickinson
I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of… — William Blake

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